Research Guides: Primary Junior Media and Digital Literacy: Lesson Plans

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Media Smarts - Find Lessons and Resources
Filter resources by grade, topic, and resource type to get the most relevant materials for your classroom.
Seven Media Literacy Lessons
From Education World.
News Literacy Collection
From LesPlan Educational Services, this collection includes various lessons and activities to help students in grades 5-12 determine what is false information and what is real news.
LesPlan Free Downloads
On this page you'll find free articles and activities from recent issues of The Canadian Reader, What in the World?, and Building Bridges. All three journals focus on current events for education. Some resources are for grades 3-12, others are for grades 5-12.
Deepfake Videos Explained
From CBC Kids News, this lesson plan for kids age 9-12 discusses deepfake videos. Includes a teacher guide on using videos effectively in the classroom.
Digital Media Literacy Framework - Grades K-3
This framework draws on nine topics of digital media literacy and provides teachers with lessons and interactive activities that are linked to curriculum outcomes for each province and territory.
Digital Media Literacy Framework - Grades 4-6
This framework draws on nine topics of digital media literacy and provides teachers with lessons and interactive activities that are linked to curriculum outcomes for each province and territory.
So Many Choices!
This lesson for grades K-3 explores how to search the internet safely.
Read Write Think - Media Literacy
From the National Council of Teachers of English, Read Write Think's Media Literacy collection offers many lesson plans for any subject or grade level.
Curio - Fake News and Disinformation
This collection includes videos, lesson plans, and activities to help students protect themselves from fake news and disinformation.
Digital Citizenship Lesson Plans
Browse free digital literacy lessons for students K-12.
Information Literacy
This information literacy lessons from TedEd cover all grade levels and many different forms of media.

Featured Resource

All About Explorers is a site developed by teachers to educate students on the prevalence of false information on the internet. While some of the facts on the site are true or based in truth, much of the site is completely made up. See the For Teachers section for worksheets, lesson plans, and other materials the creators have used with their students.

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Five Key Questions that can Change the World by Jeff Share (Associate Editor); Elizabeth Thoman (Editor); Tessa Jolls (Consultant Editor) A CML MediaLit Kit, includes 25 lesson plans for K-12 Media Literacy.
Call Number: Books (Education) P91.3 .S53t 2007
ISBN: 9781879419193
Publication Date: 2005-01-01